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Gerhard Löwenthal Prize
The Gerhard Löwenthal Prize (german: link=no, Gerhard-Löwenthal-Preis) is an award for "liberal-conservative journalism" () in Germany. Endowed by German "Foundation for Conservative Education and Research" (), it is awarded in cooperation with national-conservative newspaper ''Junge Freiheit'' and Ingeborg Löwenthal, widow of conservative journalist and Holocaust survivor Gerhard Löwenthal. Issued annually between 2004 and 2009, it has since been awarded only biannually. The prize money is 5,000 euros. Recipients of the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize Recipients of the prize have been: * 2004 – Thorsten Hinz, writes for ''Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung'' and ''Sezession'' * 2005 – Stefan Scheil, historian * 2006 – Thomas Paulwitz, founder of the magazine ''Deutsche Sprachwelt''Lesesaal: Thomas Paulwitz * 2007 – Andreas Krause Landt, founder of the ''Landt Verlag'' * 2008 – Ellen Kositza, author * 2009 – André F. Lichtschlag, founder of the magazine ''eigentümlich frei' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Junge Freiheit
The ''Junge Freiheit'' (JF, "Young Freedom") is a German weekly newspaper on politics and culture that was established in 1986. It has been described as conservative, right-wing, nationalistic and as the "ideological supply ship of right-wing populism" in Germany. History ''JF'' was founded by students in Freiburg im Breisgau in May 1986 on the initiative of the 19-year-old Dieter Stein. The founders described the newspaper as a reaction to the "dominance of the leftist 68.Generation" among university teachers. In 1993, the newspaper moved its headquarters to Potsdam, near Berlin, and to Hohenzollerndamm, Berlin, in 1995. In 1994, a printing site for the JF in Weimar was firebombed by far-left terrorists, with damage totalling 2.5 million marks. The paper moved to Berlin a few years later, where it has been published ever since. ''JF'' had a circulation of 31,161 paid copies in the first quarter of 2020, which was an increase of 28 percent relative to the first quarter of 2015. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gerhard Löwenthal
Gerhard Löwenthal (8 December 1922 in Berlin – 6 December 2002 in Wiesbaden) was a prominent German journalist, human rights activist and author. He presented the '' ZDF-Magazin'', a news magazine of ZDF which highlighted human rights abuses in communist-ruled Eastern Europe, from 1969 to 1987. Löwenthal, who was known as a staunch anticommunist, was president of the Germany Foundation from 1977 to 1994. He was Jewish and was deported to the Sachsenhausen concentration camp during Nazi rule. After the war, he chose to remain in his native country and went on to study medicine. He also worked as a reporter for RIAS, before he became one of the first students at the Free University of Berlin. He considered himself "a man of the center" ("ein Mann der Mitte") and lamented the ever increasing trend towards left in the West German political life, which made him look like an arch-conservative. His father-in-law was CDU politician and minister Ernst Lemmer. The Gerhard Löwenthal ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung
The ''Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung'' (PAZ) is a German weekly newspaper published by the Landsmannschaft Ostpreußen. It was previously called the ''Ostpreußenblatt'' and was aimed mainly at German post-war expellees from parts of Central and Eastern Europe. The ''Ostpreußenblatt'' was first published in April 1950. The readership of the ''Ostpreußenblatt'' was aging, so in 2003, in an attempt to discard the image of an internal newsletter and thus gain new readers, it was renamed ''Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung''. The ''Preußische Allgemeine Zeitung'' states its political alignment to be "Prussian conservative Conservatism is a cultural, social, and political philosophy that seeks to promote and to preserve traditional institutions, practices, and values. The central tenets of conservatism may vary in relation to the culture and civilization i ...". It has been accused by the journalist Anton Maegerle of providing a platform for extreme right-wing authors. The ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'' (; ''FAZ''; "''Frankfurt General Newspaper''") is a centre-right conservative-liberal and liberal-conservativeHans Magnus Enzensberger: Alter Wein in neuen Schläuchen' (in German). ''Deutschland Radio'', 16 October 2007 German newspaper founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt. Its Sunday edition is the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung'' (; ''FAS''). The paper runs its own correspondent network. Its editorial policy is not determined by a single editor, but cooperatively by four editors. It is the German newspaper with the widest circulation abroad, with its editors claiming the newspaper is delivered to 148 countries. History The first edition of the ''F.A.Z.'' appeared on 1 November 1949; its founding editors were Hans Baumgarten, Erich Dombrowski, Karl Korn, Paul Sethe and Erich Welter. Welter acted as editor until 1980. Some editors had worked for the moderate '' Frankfurter Zeitung'', which had been banned in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andreas Krause Landt
Andreas Krause Landt (born 1963), also known as Andreas Lombard, is a German journalist and publisher of Jewish ancestry, and the author of popular history books. Biography Krause Landt was born in Hamburg in 1963, the paternal grandson of the French Calvinist pastor . He studied philosophy, German literature, and history at Heidelberg University and the Free University of Berlin, completing his studies in 1993 with a Magister's thesis entitled "Topographies of the sublime: alienation and aestheticism in the work of Peter Weiss". He then worked writing screenplays for dubs and from 1996 as a freelance journalist, notably for the ''Berliner Zeitung'' and Deutschlandradio Kultur. In 2005 he founded the publisher , which publishes mainly works on 19th- and 20th-century history. In 2007 Krause Landt received the Gerhard Löwenthal Prize The Gerhard Löwenthal Prize (german: link=no, Gerhard-Löwenthal-Preis) is an award for "liberal-conservative journalism" () in Germany. Endowe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabatina James
Born November 20, 1982 Sabatina James, often referred to as Sabatina, is an Austrian Pakistani humanitarian, author and founder of Sabatina e.V., a non profit organisation based in Germany. She is known for her human rights advocacy, especially for rescuing persecuted christians in Pakistan and helping muslim girls in Germany to flee from forced marriage and honor killings. Early life Sabatina lived until her tenth year as a Muslim with her family in the city of Dhadar, Pakistan until her family moved to Linz, Austria. Sabatina integrated and assimilated quickly into Austrian society. Her parents were unhappy with this since they understood Austria as a temporary residence. Since restrictions against their daughter were no longer effective, the family decided to send Sabatina to Lahore to marry her cousin. Her parents left her in Pakistan, where she was forced to go to a Madrasa. Sabatina consented initially into the marriage with her cousin in order to get back to Austria. Onc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann
Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann (19 December 1916 – 25 March 2010) was a German political scientist. Her most famous contribution is the model of the spiral of silence, detailed in ''The Spiral of Silence: Public Opinion – Our Social Skin''. The model is an explanation of how perceived public opinion can influence individual opinions or actions. Biography Elisabeth Noelle was born to Ernst and Eve Noelle in 1916 in the Villa Noelle in Grunewald, a suburb of Berlin. First Elisabeth went to several schools in Berlin and then switched to the prestigious Salem Castle School, which she also left one year later. She earned her Abitur in 1935 in Göttingen and then studied philosophy, history, journalism, and American studies at the Friedrich Wilhelm University, and the Königsberg Albertina University. When she visited Obersalzberg on 13 June 1937 with 23 other students, she by chance had an encounter with Adolf Hitler, which she later called "one of the most intensive and strangest ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf Jobst Siedler
Wolf Jobst Siedler (17 January 1926 – 27 November 2013) was a German publisher and writer. Life Born in Berlin, he studied at the Freie Universität and worked as a journalist. His publishing house ''Wolf Jobst Siedler Verlag'' was bought in 1989 by Bertelsmann-Gruppe. He has authored several books and wrote for many German publications including the ''Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung'', the ''Süddeutsche Zeitung'', ''Die Zeit'', ''Die Welt'' and ''Junge Freiheit''. Siedler was interviewed about his assessments of Albert Speer in the docudrama ''Speer und Er''. Honours * Karl-Friedrich-Schinkel-Ring * Ernst-Robert-Curtius-Preis * Deutscher Nationalpreis (2002) * Gerhard Löwenthal Prize, honorary prize References Sources *Clive James Clive James (born Vivian Leopold James; 7 October 1939 – 24 November 2019) was an Australian critic, journalist, broadcaster, writer and lyricist who lived and worked in the United Kingdom from 1962 until his death in 2019. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Peter Scholl-Latour
Peter Roman Scholl-Latour (9 March 1924 – 16 August 2014) was a French-German journalist, author and legendary reporter. Biography Peter Scholl-Latour, who was born in the Province of Westphalia and grew up in Lorraine, was the son of dermatologist Otto Scholl-Latour (1888–1960) and Mathilde Zerline Nußbaum (1896–1991; sister of the medical doctor Robert Nußbaum, who was killed in KZ Sachsenhausen) from the Alsace. In his youth he was persecuted by the Nazis and had to flee to France. He then joined the French army and fought against his pursuers and in the Indochina War. Youth and education Having a Jewish mother and thus suspicious of the national socialists (under the Nuremberg Laws he was considered to be a Mischling, a ''crossbreed'' of first degree), his parents baptized him as a Catholic and sent him to the swiss Jesuit Collège Saint-Michel in Fribourg. When his parents were forbidden to keep transferring money to Switzerland he had to quit the Collège and r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ernst Nolte
Ernst Nolte (11 January 1923 – 18 August 2016) was a German historian and philosopher. Nolte's major interest was the comparative studies of fascism and communism (cf. Comparison of Nazism and Stalinism). Originally trained in philosophy, he was professor emeritus of modern history at the Free University of Berlin, where he taught from 1973 until his 1991 retirement. He was previously a professor at the University of Marburg from 1965 to 1973. He was best known for his seminal work '' Fascism in Its Epoch'', which received widespread acclaim when it was published in 1963. Nolte was a prominent conservative academic from the early 1960s and was involved in many controversies related to the interpretation of the history of fascism and communism, including the '' Historikerstreit'' in the late 1980s. In later years, Nolte focused on Islamism and " Islamic fascism". Nolte received several awards, including the Hanns Martin Schleyer Prize and the Konrad Adenauer Prize. He was the f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heimo Schwilk
Heimo is a German and Finnish male given name. Notable people with this name include: * Heimo Erbse (1924–2005), German composer * Heimo Haitto (1925–1999), Finnish-American violinist * Heimo Hecht (born 1961), Austrian sailor * Heimo Korth, American outdoorsman * Heimo Kump (born 1968), Austrian football player * Heimo Müllneritsch (born 1947), Austrian slalom canoeist * Heimo Pfeifenberger (born 1966), Austrian football player * Heimo Reinitzer (born 1943), Austrian athlete * Heimo Rekonen (1920–1997), Finnish politician * Heimo Taskinen, Finnish ski-orienteering competitor * Heimo Vorderegger (born 1966), Austrian football player * Heimo Zobernig Heimo Zobernig (born 1958) is an Austrian artist who works in a variety of media from painting and sculpture to site specific installation and design. Education Zobernig attended the Academy of Fine Arts (Akademie der bildenden Künste), Vienna ... (born 1958), Austrian artist * Heimo Grasser (born 1983), Austrian world trav ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vera Lengsfeld
Vera Lengsfeld (born 4 May 1952) is a German politician. She was a prominent civil rights activist in East Germany and after the German reunification she first represented the Alliance 90/The Greens and then the German Christian Democratic Union (CDU) in the Bundestag. Early life Lengsfeld was born in Sondershausen. Her father was an officer in the Stasi, the East German secret police. After leaving school she studied Philosophy at Humboldt University Berlin. Following her studies, she worked as a lecturer and researcher at the National Institute of Philosophy in the Academy of Sciences of East Germany. From 1975, she was a member of the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED). After a party procedure she was transferred to the Institute for Scientific Information. In 1981 she left the academy and went to work as an editor. She became a born-again Christian in 1981, and was active in various civic organizations in East Germany (GDR). She was the co-founder of in the autumn o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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